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A38780	Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	The voice of the people for a king shewing the only way for the future settlement and peace of England, humbly presented to His Excellency the Lord General Monck / by Arise Evans.	1659.0		.xml	application/xml	9141	180	54	MY LORD , I shall not wrap my self in a cloud of high Eloquence , or be able to show your merits , I hope you are he that God hath raised , to make England again happy , yea , more happy then ever it was , which now is in a sad condition , under many miseries ; her once glorious Church and Kingdome , that shined in prosperity in the sight of all the world , troden under foot , Parliaments-priviledges violated , the peoples Liberties detained , their goods being spent through long paying Excise , Assesments , and such new devises to pole them , which never was known in England before , trading utterly gone , the one part of the Nation being imployed to destroy and eat up the other ; and of late no visible Authority ; and men kept under and kill'd for offering to shew their agrievances , and yet no visible hope of redemption , but of that which under God appears in you . And there must be in Christs Kingdome a perfect Law made for all occasion , and according to the Gospel , a Law that needeth not to be altered every foot , but it must be such a Law as nothing shall be added to it , or taken from it ; that every one may know his rule and the punishment of his errour , and the said Law must be truly and speedily executed upon the offenders , else it profiteth nothing , for so long as our Law is imperfect , and that our Parliaments are alwaies making and nulling Laws , we shall never be quiet or come to rest according to Gods promise which saith , Heb. 4. 9. there is a rest for the people of God , and the Lord is well pleased for his righteousnesse Lands and states in rich mens hands , and they could not deny it ? but told them in a bravado they would spend in law thousands before they should get it : and the poor knowing aforehand the course of the law was content to loose their Right , and it was wisdome in them so to do ; seeing their going to law will not relieve them , being sure it will make their condition worse ; what a sad thing is it for men to live under such a law , let all good just reasonable men judge , such doings are not to be in Christs Kingdome .	cache/A38780.xml	txt/A38780.txt
